Assignment V - What is our greatest ethical obligation as journos?

It has to be "Seek Truth and Report It."

Let's say you are working for a news company and you want to post this story about how a politician did a very serious crime. However, it's an incriminating a politician with the same political beliefs as the news company, and they don't want you to besmirch the political party's name. But you have to do it anyway because it's not about the political party, it's about catching a criminal.

Online Story?

Oops. I guess I procrastinated too long and couldn't find the right words in time. But I swear I'll do the second online story assignment at a later time.

Assignment IV - Media Impact Project

The article I've looked at is https://www.americanpressinstitute.org/publications/reports/strategy-studies/improving-accountability-reporting/

In terms of journaling, I found a good quote that says, "Target the people who are unsure [because] the most likely people to be swayed are the people in the middle — those who aren’t sure what to believe."

According to that blog, "newspaper readers are now more of a visual society. We’re spoiled, impatient, even lazy. When we want information, we say show me, don’t tell me." Anybody can talk about whatever comes out of their mouth, but if you want to prove how true you are, you'd have to show them a picture of something. I myself am a visual learner and less of a words person, so I understand a story better if I can see it.

Online writers bring in the right amount of emotion and impact to get the views and followers up. They pick the right amount of words for the situation.

Assignment III - Aggregator, or Activist?

Activists shouldn't be journalists. Activists are more focused on making their side the hero, and the other a villain. Journalists are all about discussing what's happening and keeping their biases out of their writing so that the reader can create their own argument.

Julian Assange is more of a muckraker. He is the founder of WikiLeaks which shows many emails and documents that are not meant to be seen to the public eye. In this article, he claimed to urge Trump Jr to publish his conversations with the Russians to his website. Assange also wanted to leak those emails supposedly to strengthen the connections to Donald Trump and Russia so the President could get impeached.

Edward Snowden is more honest about his action in leaking his emails. He didn't do it to make Obama look like a bad guy, he did it to warn people about any possible danger that might be coming.

Assignment II - Reporter's Privilege

They should not be considered professional journalists because there is a trap that bloggers talk about, and that is bias. Bloggers can certainly talk about what is going on but not without being opinionated about their beliefs and feelings. Experienced journalists would put aside their opinions and talk about the facts.

It all depends on your expertise. Reporter's Privilege, in my eyes, is about the right to speak as much truth, no matter what anybody else says. It's important, to tell the truth, to bring down some evil liar.

Assignment I - Response to Online Article

What I learned from that article is that those migrants tried to enter America in an unairconditioned truck, and that ended up killing some of them.

The article is presented like most accident stories are presented, except that the details of the victims and survivors were not named. The only source it mentioned was the Washington Post, the rest might be from eye-witnesses or police reports. 

I'd say the reporter spent less than two hours researching it, and even fewer people editing, in less in an hour. I can't speak for myself since I'm not very good at time management, but some news reporters are inclined to get the news out as fast as possible.